Media and Advertising GenZ Community Town Hall Sept. 23 12-2 p.m. ET

As part of the inaugural Advancing Diversity Week program of more than 30 panels and 80 speakers the media advertising marketing and entertainment community is joining to encourage and facilitate a dialogue between senior leaders diverse college students exploring careers and earlystage team members in the media and advertising community MediaVillage and AdvancingDiversityorg are hosting the inaugural virtual GenZ Town Hall Assembly focused on addressing and improving talent retention by advancing diversity from advocacy to activism and from inclusion to belongingA powerful goal for the September 23rd twohour quotall handsquot diversityfocused event from noon2 pm ET is to promote open communication among senior management DEI leaders and the new generation of employees Register here to secure your place via ZoomAll professionals in the first five years of their careers students educators and college administrators are invited to participate in the threeday Advancing Diversity Week panels and can view them live streamed at MediaVillagecom and can also register for the interactive Zoom at MediaVillagecomThis inaugural collective industry GenZ Town Hall event will feature leaders from the ten 2021 Advancing Diversity Hall of Honors Inductees see below and Advancing Diversity Council members from Disney Advertising Sales Twitter and WarnerMedia sharing questions from the audience of more than 1000 GenZ team members from AdvancingDiversityorg and supporters and MediaVillage member companies Questions will be curated by three leading MediaVillage journalists and columnists who will invite the questioner to the Zoom quotstagequot to engage personally with the Hall of Honors inductees and Council members The Town Hall will be moderated by MediaVillage and AdvancingDiversityorg founder Jack Myers The Female Quotient Chief Innovation Officer Ronda Carnegie and AdvancingDiversityorg executive director Philip McKenzieThe Town Hall meeting will open with a brief quotState of Affairsquot presented by Marc S Pritchard Chief Brand Officer at PampampG and Chairman of the Association of National Advertisers ANA and Marla Kaplowitz president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies 4AsMediaVillage journalists who will both curate audience questions and probe for more indepth details include Kelly Kozakevich host of the AskGenZ video interview series Juan Ayala host of the Multicultural TV podcast and Kate Byrne editor of the WomenAdvancing video seriesquotOur approach is to facilitate an open 39assembly39 to give team members who have recently joined our community a voice and role as the media and advertising industry competes for diverse talent across a spectrum of diverse communitiesquot Myers commentedThe FQ39s Carnegie who cofounded the Advancing Diversity Council added quotOur hope is to harness the next generation to advance diversity perspectives and industry growth based on proven programs and initiatives with a path forwardquotMcKenzie who hosts The Pool podcast explained quotOur intent is to minimize the gap between management and employees improving industry and company culture growing team spirit and reversing the trend toward young people leaving the industry to pursue new career goalsquotIn addition to leaders of Twitter Disney Advertising Sales and WarnerMedia the Advancing Diversity Hall of Honors Inductees who will be sharing their personal and organizational stories and responding to audience questions and comments areMarla Kaplowitz President and Chief Executive Officer 4A39s American Association of Advertising AgenciesSimon Fenwick Executive Vice President of Talent and Engagement 4A39s FoundationSteve Pacheco President and Chief Executive Officer AAF American Advertising FederationSherina Smith Vice President and Head of Marketing American Family InsuranceTina Davis Interim Chief Marketing Officer CitiChristena Pyle Chief Diversity Officer dentsu AmericasByron Allen Founder Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Entertainment StudiosGracie LawsonBorders Dean and Professor Howard University39s Cathy Hughes School of CommunicationsYvette Moyo Founder MOBE Marketing Opportunities in Business ampamp EntertainmentGaye Hirsch Executive Vice President Development THE CWRegister here to secure your place via Zoom

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